Feds Trying to Determine if Asian Carp Have Made it Into Lake Michigan

Federal officials are set to embark on a four-day Asian Carp fishing fest to determine if the high-flying aquatic rats have made their way into Lake Michigan

From this story in the Christian Science Monitor:Federal officials are starting a four-day intensive fishing expedition Monday to determine whether the Asian carp has infiltrated water locks that are designed to keep the invasive species from entering Lake Michigan, a scenario that neighboring states say would wreak havoc on the lake’s fragile ecosystem. The search effort is in response to discoveries of Asian carp DNA in June and July, all in Lake Calumet, a body of water located about six miles below Lake Michigan but directly connected to it through the Calumet-Sag Channel. That waterway intersects the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a man-made channel that connects Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River.